yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Droid Charge] luvtorev:
Exactly my point, we "the devs" should not be working hard to make this a fast phone or better/smoother it should already be that way out of the box or with upgrades after paying premium for this phone. Remember it's not 199 like all other phones, it is 299 one hundred more than the rest of all other phones from any carriers out there. That is really upsetting. I had the droid inc 2 (199 with 50 mail in rebate, so really 150)for one week before I got the charge and it was a great little phone with the best battery life i have ever had plus it had been upgraded to gingerbread already (thinking about switching back to it). The Droid X, X2, droid 3, are all 199 and running the latest, but we paid 299 for lte and samoled screen but got stuck with froyo. That is really upsetting. I always read how samsung was really bad with updates but I thought this was one of their flagship phones so maybe it would get the upgrades but guess I was wrong, I'm sure it will come but way after everyone else.

ps: im not a dev just to clear up my first sentence, we as in customer
[Verizon Droid Charge] Syn Ack:
No issues with my phone after rooting and flashing what I want. Today I was losing only 2% battery per hour! I made 2 phone calls and texted a bunch. They do need to get us to GB quick and I wish it was a dual core phone. I'll be getting the Nexus 3 as soon as that comes out and this will be on eBay.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Falcyn:
The (large) majority of smartphone users use their phones more for messaging and web usage than for voice calls. You're in a shrinking minority and it's simply in companies' best interests to cater to the majority of their users.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Schoat333:
Its hard for me to relate here. I bought this phone because it is currently the easiest 4G LTE phone to customize. I never planned on keeping stock TW, and will never put it back on my phone, unless I sell it.

I could care less what samsung is doing, because we have plenty of great developers, that are doing way better. ;)

I recommend anyone that hates the stock samsung experience flash a custom rom. You'll be a lot happier with this phone.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
We all have custom roms here. Yes, our devs are great, but our roms could be so much better if we had source and official support. Yes, this is the current flagship 4G LTE phone, but it lacks common features of lesser phones!

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
Well the Galaxy S line were samsung's flagship devices last year when they came out and it still took months and months even for official froyo (especially for the Fascinate) so just because the Charge is the latest and greatest from samsung (on verizon anyway) doesn't mean it'll get a ton of support out of the gate unfortunately... I know that 2.2 froyo was a huge improvement over 2.1 eclair so perhaps thats why it took so long, however 2.2 to gingerbread is not a major OS overhaul so hopefully that means we won't have to wait as long for 2.3 GB. I'd give it probably till the end of the year before we have GB and up to date source code.
[Verizon Droid Charge] luvtorev:
I see what you are saying but at the same time if what you say here, by the end of the year we should have GB and source, is true then we will still not be up to date because ice cream sandwich will be out and we will still be playing catching up with os. I guess it's all part of sells, just make phones and market well and move on....ahh why did i fall in love with android lol
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
yep thats pretty much how it goes, there are no phones that get immediate OS updates except for google's own pure AOSP line of phones (Nexus One, Nexus S etc.), however some manufacturers are pretty good with updates and supporting their devices over long periods of time like HTC and Motorola. I want to say the Charge will get GB before the Bionic or any Galaxy S2 phone hits, as a ton of people will be jumping over to those phones I think (myself included lol)
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Also, what the hell is with this candy-ass amount of RAM?!

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
[Verizon Droid Charge] vash1053:
I don't know if I'd want a lithium polymer battery in my phone...
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Li-Po is the same in the iphone...and that has great battery

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
^^^^^^^ this x1000
[Verizon Droid Charge] jonesin:
Juice defender works flawlessly on

My rooted charge running humble rom... This bad boy pumps out eighteen hours of regular use. Videos music facebook and a whole lot of xda
[Verizon Droid Charge] blarrick:
I liked JD but honestly, I like my data never being interrupted alot more. I tried Balanced & Customize and my weather apps would never stay connected, it was becoming quite annoying so I just disabled it, with a battery calibration my phone gets me through the day with hard use
[Verizon Droid Charge] bgorrell:
So why can't they cater to both? I'm an advanced user and I still prefer voice communication. It's faster and less prone to misinterpretation. Your statement is nothing but conjecture.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bgorrell:
Was anything special done to get JD working? Mine will not enable data when waking from sleep. Read the same from other users and that it was broken on the charge. Also running humble, btw. Would love to get it working since it saved me lots of battery in weak signal area's while on the fascinate.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Updated OP with more angry comments.

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
[Verizon Droid Charge] BlackHoleSlam:
Just throwing this out there if any of you are fed up with your charges pm to trade for a thunderbolt
[Verizon Droid Charge] Syn Ack:
Yuck, even worse. The Thunderbolt was recently crowned the biggest smartphone letdown of the entire year.
[Verizon Droid Charge] aznxk3vi17:
WTB Gingerbread, PST
[Verizon Droid Charge] BlackHoleSlam:
Yes by yahoo if your going to base all your choices on yahoo u would probably be using an iphone
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
I lol'd. But it's true, the tbolt sucks compared to the Charge.

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
[Verizon Droid Charge] neyenlives:
i think the 4G radio in the handset is weak and could use a tweak to increase power if possible.

i say this because i work 10 miles from my house and the entire area is WELL within the darkest red on VZW's coverage map, not close to what might be considered "4G LTE Extended Coverage Area" which is where you could get 3G/4G switching

and inside the office building i get a mediumish 3G signal, only if i walk to the window and wait a minute will it switch to 4G again

i also get the OP's 4G to 3G to 1xRTT to 3G to 4G handoff standing in the middle of a 4G area with 4-5 bars

i hope they can release a firmware update for the radio or maybe they are still improving 4G here because it just got launched like two weeks ago, but its funny i have the same exact switching issue as the OP in a different market
[Verizon Droid Charge] Farabomb:
I have the Charge and the GF has the Tbolt. I have spent a good amount of time with both and the charge wins out. Mainly becasue of the Tbolt's constant rebooting issues.
[Verizon Droid Charge] BlackHoleSlam:
As soon as you root or even ota mr2 radio for the bolt issue is fixed
[Verizon Droid Charge] jonesin:
As far as getting jd working I did notice that the ultimate version does much better at restoring my data connection from wake then the free version did. Had alot of

Problems with the free one so I downloaded ultimate to see what else I could tweak and voila started working like a charm
[Verizon Droid Charge] jpog:
Wow..a lot of anger in here...Murphy is probably gonna smack me one for this but I love th charge and don't have any issues with it...I like it better then my wifes iphone..and this is truly my first real Smart phone..so yes I am a noob. My wife's iphone has had more bugs and isssues..then I have had thus far.

The orange and brown..is a bit weird though..
[Verizon Droid Charge] droidfever:
The search button is what got us this Android OS. Without the search, why would Google much such OS?

The notification light is really a letdown..... It used to be the primary feature that I look for when I shop for phones (before the smartphone era)

I still want a decent 4G phone with 4" screen tho. Seriously, am I the only one think 4.3" phone are too big??

When I got this phone, I turned it on.... I almost wanted beat the **** out of the saleman that said it's a fast phone! Dude!! It's lagging no matter what the F I do!!

(My fire was put out my Gummycharge and Humble, nice work guys!)
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Wow, 1k views. This is by far my most viewed thread. Feeling better guys?

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
[Verizon Droid Charge] bgorrell:
Yes! ;-)
[Verizon Droid Charge] blarrick:
I'll never feel better until I've got official GB, TW4 and a notification LED. Too bad only 2 of those things can actually be done...
[Verizon Droid Charge] BeefJerky9:
Unfortunately, it is not that simple. Verizon's LTE uses a different frequency (700Mhz vs 800MHz/1.9GHz), and also a different antenna on the tower. Therefore, just because you can get 3G in a certain spot, there is no guarantee that you will get a good 4G signal. It's possible that VZW is still adding coverage and tweaking in already lit areas, so the 4G coverage might improve for you at some time. However, it is not likely the phones fault, and therefore software updates aren't likely to fix it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] neyenlives:
yeah but sitting in the middle of a 4G area, why would my phone go from 4G to 3G to 1xRTT to 3G and back to 4G all with strong signal? how is that a tower issue?

i have also noticed 4G seems to me much more line of sight dependent, if you look at their coverage map there is a clear line where the coverage stops where a nearby line formed by a sudden elevation change (long hilltop on edge of valley). It's like as soon as you go over the top of the hillside you lose 4G completely.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ceredics:
Okay my turn to vent now :)

I cant stand the poop brown and orange and almost yellow boxes and theme, ugh it kills my eyes seeing that crap on verizon.

I really dont have a problem with battery, about 8 on heavy use and 4G signal is great never drops to 3G.

But **** where is the damn LED??????? Some people base a lot on that as a high end phone.

Also, What the hell is up with the camera? I never knew 8 mp would look so blurry on this supposedly gorgeous screen!?!? Taking pictures inside sucks and the flash sucks too.

Well wtf do they plan on doing to the scheme i dont know but change better be fast or ill root the **** out of it.

Feeling better. ;)
[Verizon Droid Charge] BeefJerky9:
First, the bars only show the phone signal strength (1x) and nothing more. As far as I know, there is no way to display the 3G or 4G signal strength that your phone is receiving.

As for being line of sight, the lower frequency of LTE should theoretically be better in that regard. The higher the frequency, the more directional (line of sight) it is. However, the difference is negligible, even from 700 to 1900MHz. You'd have to go significantly lower to make a real difference in that regard. In addition, lower frequencies are better at penetrating materials (i.e. walls), but again, the difference is negligible here. The point being, there isn't any significant difference in terms of penetration or line of sight between 1x/EVDO and LTE.

As far as stopping at the hillside, that doesn't surprise me. No signal in the high MHz frequencies will penetrate that, whether it's the 700MHz of LTE or the 800/1900MHz of 1x/EVDO. The difference is, VZW has active antennas for 1x/EVDO on the other side of the hilltop, but hasn't yet put 4G antennas there. It's as simple as that. As they build out their 4G network, the other side of the hillside will get 4G, assuming those towers are VZW owned towers.

Now, here are some of my thoughts regarding this, including your situation; note that these are only theories , not facts. I honestly believe that VZW is still learning a lot regarding LTE as they deploy it. It is still a young technology and VZW is pretty much the first to deploy; there are bound to be problems. I also suspect that due to differences in the equipment (including that used on the towers), coverage and distribution of signal may be quite a bit different than the prior 1x/EVDO. This may be something that tested one way in a perfect lab environment, but was different in the real world. I suspect as time goes on, and VZW works out the bugs, there will be less of these 4G dead areas. Over time, the 4G coverage will become more like the 3G. However, I can't guarantee this. Now, I will say that if you are having these issues, don't hesitate to let VZW know. They may not necessarily do anything now, but if they get enough of those reports they may take it seriously.
[Verizon Droid Charge] BeefJerky9:
Just a thought on this. My first charge wouldn't focus properly, and I ended up with blurry pictures. I exchanged it, and the new one is much better. Honestly, this camera is by far the best phone camera I have used. It is also much better than the Thunderbolt, especially in terms of noise in darker pictures.
[Verizon Droid Charge] BlackHoleSlam:
I have a question how do u pick up noise in your pictures?
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
It's a well known thing.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_noise

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Yes... You may have a bad electromagnet in your phone. The Charge's image sensor focus is controlled by an electromagnet, allowing for REAL image focus. When you shake your phone, you can hear some rattling. Now start your camera and shake it again... The sound is gone!

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
[Verizon Droid Charge] Andrwmorph:
Thanks for making me aware of noLed! It works really well with surprisingly little battery drain.
[Verizon Droid Charge] aznxk3vi17:
What kind of effect do you see it having on your battery life? I've been wanting to try it out, but as my battery life is bad enough as it is, I'm afraid to try it. I've also heard stories of NoLED destroying people's battery life (drained to 0% in a few hours).
[Verizon Droid Charge] putney1477:
Hmmmmm maybe that's what's killing my battery. I ran no led on my fascinate and installed it on my charge as soon as I got it...... I.don't think I could live without it at this point lol.
[Verizon Droid Charge] vash1053:
iPhones use Lithium-ion batteries.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

Between their costliness, lack of durability, and tendency to explode if dropped hard enough, I'm not really surprised that manufacturers don't want to use lithium polymers as stock batteries. Too much of a liability in too many ways.
[Verizon Droid Charge] blarrick:
If you ask me a notification isn't really necessary when you just set it to "remind" you if you haven't checked an SMS/MMS. I just have it set to remind me every 10 minutes if I haven't read one of my messages. Sure it doesn't work for other notifications which is a bummer but you know... what're you gonna do :p
[Verizon Droid Charge] jdog_12345:
Thanks for the info. Where is that setting at?
[EVO 4G General] superm3:
which rom is the best without all the crap ware? Is there a rom out that just works? Flashing the rom without ever have to go into titianium to remove the unwanted appz...some of them you can't even remove from the rom. what ever app i want, I can just install it. CM and miui doesn't have crapware but not everything works. I don't want to have to install 3rd party software just to have certain feature works. All the other roms have crapware like facebook, peep, weather and news, desk clock, and etc... It beats the purpose of rooting your phone and at the same time custom roms may also have a lot of crapware.
[EVO 4G General] GadgetViews:
well sometimes u cant always have what you want, you gotta compromise, or just learn to be a rom dev, and make your own?
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
LOL what third party software do you have to install with cm7? Cm7 works great without the need for anything.
[EVO 4G General] Just_s:
Once rooted, there is nothing you can't uninstall/delete with Root Explorer. Pick your fav ROM, buy Root Explorer and delete away. That said, you will have sense running in the background on anything that is not AOSP (unless you run a sense remover of some sort. I think Calkulin has one.)
[EVO 4G General] ckoadiyn:
miks roms work but he keeps the crapware in there because some people like it and most keep it on there but move it to sd or whatever just so if someone does like it they can use it but its all uninstallable... i am with you though i go through many apps and remove them and gotta do it everytime but i dont care i could leave it if i wanted lol but dont use it so no need to
[EVO 4G General] mikeyrave:
cm7+savaged-zen works great, the only thing that i have run into trouble with is the gps which is an easy fix with this New GPS drivers! v1.1
[EVO 4G General] Mr nerd:
in my own opinion i love Miui i fell in love with it..

Miui with Savaged zen SBC(latest) Vipermod (flash Insanemode) Ram script Mod.Overclocked to 1.13ghz. my phone really feels better acts better games better Battery LASTS WAY LONGER...only problem no app drawer but you can always use zeam launcher that makes it even faster i think
[EVO 4G General] iiiiaann:
Go with MikG man, it comes with some of the "crapware" but you can easily remove everything you don't want and the rom is phenomenal
[EVO 4G General] MaxCarnage:
EVO Deck is about one of the cleanest ROMs you can get; he strips CM7 clean of a lot of the stuff they add (language packs and stuff) so his zip file is pretty small.

I highly recommend his ROM if you want a good all-around AOSP experience; combined with Tiamat 3.3.7 it also gave me the best battery life of any ROM I've used.
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Deck and SalvageMod are extremely lightweight
[EVO 4G General] bschrag812:
I'd recommend Vaelpak. His 3.2 is a very solid senseless based Rom. His .2.2 is still in beta more or less but has been good so far. It is a complete aosp Rom.
[EVO 4G General] Neitmrh15:
I've tried...

Deck

Vaelpak

Synergy

MIUI

All of which have been awesome in their own way. Deck was like the stock Android experience, Vael was like stock Android mixed with sense and a lot of options, Synergy is a really solid sense rom and MIUI is just a cool take on Android.
[EVO 4G General] bschrag812:
The newest Vaelpak is a GB based full aosp. The 3.2 (which I'm guessing is the one you have tried) is the senseless rom.
[EVO 4G General] waterbound:
MIUI is nice but no 4G so that's out.

CM7 is nice but not everything works perfectly, then its a find the best kernel that does this or that so that's out.

For me, I settled on Kings Alliance 2.1 with hybrid 3.0 on my EVO 4G. Everything works and well, battery life great, camera, 4G, wifi and tons of modifications if you want.

These are my opinions but for looks, simplicity, speed and not any bloatware right off the bat, try Kings..
[EVO 4G General] MaxCarnage:
In fairness, I don't think there's any custom ROM not based on stock that works perfectly. There are always nagging little issues like auto brightness not working or having to run a driver fix for GPS with every CM nightly. You have to take the good with the bad. :)
[EVO 4G General] eaguil16:
Cyanogen works great for me without any problems
[EVO 4G General] fergie716:
OMFGB Nightlies are real good.. Android 2.3.5, different from CM. Has some interesting features and T-Moblie Theme Chooser

Also like Just_S said before, you can easily remove any app you don't want..

A good free app I've been using is Root App Remover FOUND HERE

D/L For OMFGB Nightlies HERE
[EVO 4G General] MaxCarnage:
Titanium Backup is good for uninstalling apps too.
[EVO 4G General] us3rm3:
flashing rom with all the crapware and uninstalling crapware through titianium backup, doesn't that slow down your phone? look at windows mobile and windows os. Installing an appz and uninstalling it slows down your phone by half. cm and miui doesnt have 4g. The last time I checked, both still have issue with 160 character and tethering issues.
[EVO 4G General] MaxCarnage:
I never noticed any slow-down from uninstalling apps. CM7 supports 4G on the EVO; I can't speak for all other phones. I never had any tethering issues when using any custom ROM.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iiiiaann:
My lock button is shot, and I was wondering if there was a way to give the volume rocker the same functionality for waking up the phone. I do not want to bypass the lock screen, such as with no lock, and I want to use the default lock screen not widget locker. Is this possible? I just want the phone to wake up when I press the volume button.

Side note, anyone else break their power button and replace it or fix it? It doesnt seem like it would be all that difficult, just wondering if anyone else has done that.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iiiiaann:
anyone have any solutions for this? I'm rooted so if there is any way to actually re-map the volume up key to have the function of the power key I could do that....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roids87:
Cm7. 1 has an option to use the volume rocker to wake the phone.

Edit.... Decks rom might have the same option, as it's based off CM, but don't quote me on that as I have never used it.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] dougeq:
Help i was using odin to reflash my infuse and my computer crashed during the reflash i retried oden got it to work now i cant download apps from the market sometimes, and some apps freeze and im getting a google chat erroris their anything i can do
[Samsung Infuse 4G] VtHondaGuy08:
You could always re-flash the rom again, or go under settings-applications-market-force close-clear app data. See if that helps, then delete your google account and re-setup.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Entropy512:
If your device is booting, then just reflash with odin again. You might also need to do a factory/reset wipe after backing up critical data (such as TiBu backups, and backups from SMS Backup and Restore)

Also, only use the "restore system data" feature of TiBu when restoring from the EXACT same ROM. Otherwise you'll wind up with all sorts of weird problems.

The only times you're completely hosed are:

1) Your USB port is physically damaged and you can't charge or connect in any way

2) You flashed a bad bootloader (so far has not happened to anyone here other than Aou and he was an experimental volunteer) and have the "black screen hardbrick"
[Bada Software and Hacking General] pao9195:
Tweet from Samfirmware:

Post your comments, ideas and reactions here.

Regards
[Bada Software and Hacking General] mylove90:
For me

i love SHP but i would recommend not hacking bada for a while until we get final release

We need to use stock FWs to report bugs

Best Regards
[Bada Software and Hacking General] anghelyi:
We doesn't even supposed to report bugs as we are not testers...

But I don't get it: how can it brick my phone?
[Bada Software and Hacking General] Tigrouzen:
You cant brick Wave !!! You cant brick Wave !!

Just if you use JTAG maybe you can brick !!

You can modified all files your wave doesnt brick with multiloader; )

Now maybe there's noob user dont know how reflash wave or forget recharge before flash and they says its samfirmware responsable, then i think samfirmware take advenced to says "we not responsable"
[Bada Software and Hacking General] mylove90:
hahahaha

I didn't think like that:D and also i am not that noob :D

I thought that bada developers team will be sad when they see this

they feel bad when we hack and attack bada for sure

Let's give them a break so they can clear their minds and make the final release

After the final bugless release we can hack it as we like :D

Best Regards